Combined shelf-bracket



(No Model.)

M. HEFFERNAN. COMBINED SHELF BRACKET, &c.

No. 448,919. Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

WI TWESSES I mwro ale UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEW HEFFERNAN, OF NEWVBURG, OHIO.

COMBINED SHELF-BRACKET, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,919, dated March 24, 1891.

I Application filed June 12, 1890. Serial No. 355,206. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW HEFFERNAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newburg, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Shelf- Brackets, Whisk-Broom Receivers, and Newspaper-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a combined shelfbracket, whisk-broom receiver, and card and newspaper holder, the object being to provide a highly-ornamental and useful device designed to be hung upon a wall or other suitable place and adapted to receive and hold various articles.

The invention consists, essentially, of two vertical standards connected together by suitable cross-bars, and at their upper ends provided with screw-eyes to engage with hooks or nails in a wall, by which the device is suspended A short distance below the upper ends of these vertical bars there is secured a horizontal shelf, semicircular in form or with its outer edge curved or rounded and provided with a series of spring-clamps for securing and holding cards, papers, and other articles. Depending from this shelf is an inclined wall secured at its lower end to the lower crossbar and vertical bars and provided with a curved tapering front wall forming an openended whisk-broom receiver. At each side of this receiver are provided a series of springclamps similar to the clamps on the shelf for holding various articles, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

In the said drawings, the reference-numeral 1 designates the vertical bars connected together by means of cross-bars 2 and 3, and provided at their upper ends with the screweyes t.

5 designates a semicircular shelf secured along its horizontal edge to the uprights 1 and cross-bar 2, and provided along its curved or rounded edge with a series of outwardlyprojecting lugs 5, and between these lugs are secured the upwardlyprojecting rims 5, spaces 5 being thus formed at the ends of the rims for enabling dust and dirt to be swept or brushed off the shelf. A series of springclamps 6, consisting of metal plates, are secured at one end to said rim. Cards, papers, and other articles can be inserted between these clamps or plates and be securely held therein. 8 designates an inclined depending wall secured at its top to the lower side of the shelf and at its lower end secured to crossbar 3 by means of an intermediate strip'9. Secured to this wall is a curved tapering strip 10, of suitable material, being connected thereto at its vertical edges, forming an openended broom-receiver. Upon vertical strips 12, secured to the depending wall at each side of the broom-receiver, is a series of springclamps 13, similar to clamps 6, secured at their lower ends and overlapping each other.

The parts composing the combined device may be made of any suitable material and are ornamented in any manner desired, so as to present an attractive appearance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The herein described combined shelf, broom-receiver, and card and paper holder, consisting of the vertical bars, with means for attaching them to a wall, the semicircular shelf having the outwardly-projecting lugs, the upwardly-projecting rims, the depending wall, the curved tapering strip secured thereto, forming an open-ended broom-receiver, and the spring-clamps for holding cards and other articles, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MATTHEl/V HEFFERNAN.

Witnesses:

P. J. HEFFERNAN, J. W. Bron. 

